butterfly progress

I’ve been working quite steadily on the butterfly and having much fun in the process. It’s kind of addicting actually, I have to force myself to put the needle down. *sigh* I love these little needlework projects. As you can see it’s starting to look like something now. Adding the color really helped. As Daddy commented tonight “it was looking a little brown there for a while”. :>

As always the pics don’t do it justice. Next time I’ll try to take some pics in the daylight, maybe that will help. I am totally in love with the aquamarine beads in the tips. The beads are silver-lined so in person they almost glow. Very cool.

The second blue in that one section was just a test. I wasn't that hip on it but after looking at the pics I definitely don’t like it. In person it actually looks a little darker, in the pics it looks about the same color. I need a darker blue, something with more contrast. Oh well. The bead search continues on then…


Edit:
Oh yeah – I forgot. I've been trying to keep a log (for once) of how many hours this dress is taking to create. I've had several people in the past month ask me how long it takes me to make one of my costumes. Since a blank stare and stammering is not terribly impressive, I figure it’s a good idea to get a number to quote. A nice fat ballpark figure at least. :>

So far I've put in about 11 hours on the beadwork. I guess this butterfly should be a good 25-30 hour project with the tassels and everything. Not counting research and supply shopping of course. I'm not even going to try and figure that effort in.